Old Advert: Illinois Central Railroad, from Scribner's Magazine 1903 No. 11 (1903), added on 5th Jan 2009
on Jan 5, 2009New Line * Fine Service Illinois Central Railroad Minneapolis and St. Paul Through from Chicago via Dubuque, Waterloo and Albert Lea. Fast vestibule Night train with through Stateroom and Open-section Sleeping Car, Buffet-Library Car and Free Reclini...

61.---Wheel and axle comined with a screw., from Elementary Mechanics, Including Hydrostatics and Pneumatics. Revised edition (1882), added on 4th Jan 2009
on Jan 4, 2009A wheel and axle may be combined with a screw, as shewn in the contrivance of fig. 61. When the handle is turned, the screw-thread on its axle sends the cog-wheel forward one tooth for every revolution. Such a screw, which itself does not advance in...

The Old year and the New, from A Record of Fifty Years' Work (1901), added on 22nd Dec 2008
on Dec 22, 2008A jester crowns the new year as a young woman, and ushers out the old year, an old woman. This picture was obviously made for the end of 1866 and the start of 1867; it is dated 1867 in the text. It was commissioned from the artist Paul Gray by the D...

Snowshill, from Cotswold Country (1939), added on 16th Dec 2008
on Dec 15, 2008The caption mentions that there was not enough money to finish the church tower, and so it was capped with grey slate. Today Snowshill is known for the manor-house, which is now run by the National Trust. National Trust Web page for Snowshill Manor(r...

The Adoration of the Maji. By F. R. Pickersgill, R.A., from A Record of Fifty Years' Work (1901), added on 10th Dec 2008
on Dec 10, 2008The Adoration of the Magi, or Maji, or Wise Men, or th eThree Kings (the Gospels do not say that they were kings, nor that there were three of them) is a popular subject; here two of them are prostrate on the ground, barefoot, while a third waits. M...

Going Home to Love in a Cottage, from A Record of Fifty Years' Work (1901), added on 10th Dec 2008
on Dec 10, 2008A man leads a horse through the snow, at night. He holds on to his hat with one hand.(read more...)...

584.---Bracket, Lincoln., from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845), added on 9th Dec 2008
on Dec 9, 2008A bracket, possibly a corbel supporting the end of an arch, in th form of a winged angel holding a shield with a cross on it.(read more...)...